Tag: wisdoms

Spinoza- Einstein on God

Einstein is quoted as saying the religion of the future would combine science and religion and that would be Buddhism .

When Einstein gave lectures at U.S. universities, the recurring question that students asked him most was:

– Do you believe in God?

And he always answered:

– I believe in the God of Spinoza.

Baruch de Spinoza was a Dutch philosopher considered one of the great rationalists of 17th century philosophy, along with Descartes.

(Spinoza) : God would say:

Stop praying.

What I want you to do is go out into the world and enjoy your life. I want you to sing, have fun and enjoy everything I’ve made for you.

Stop going into those dark, cold temples that you built yourself and saying they are my house. My house is in the mountains, in the woods, rivers, lakes, beaches. That’s where I live and there I express my love for you.

Stop blaming me for your miserable life; I never told you there was anything wrong with you or that you were a sinner, or that your sexuality was a bad thing. Sex is a gift I have given you and with which you can express your love, your ecstasy, your joy. So don’t blame me for everything they made you believe.

Stop reading alleged sacred scriptures that have nothing to do with me. If you can’t read me in a sunrise, in a landscape, in the look of your friends, in your son’s eyes… ➤ you will find me in no book!

Stop asking me “will you tell me how to do my job?” Stop being so scared of me. I do not judge you or criticize you, nor get angry, or bothered. I am pure love.

Stop asking for forgiveness, there’s nothing to forgive. If I made you… I filled you with passions, limitations, pleasures, feelings, needs, inconsistencies… free will. How can I blame you if you respond to something I put in you? How can I punish you for being the way you are, if I’m the one who made you? Do you think I could create a place to burn all my children who behave badly for the rest of eternity? What kind of god would do that?

Respect your peers and don’t do what you don’t want for yourself. All I ask is that you pay attention in your life, that alertness is your guide.

My beloved, this life is not a test, not a step on the way, not a rehearsal, nor a prelude to paradise. This life is the only thing here and now and it is all you need.

I have set you absolutely free, no prizes or punishments, no sins or virtues, no one carries a marker, no one keeps a record.

You are absolutely free to create in your life. Heaven or hell.

➤ I can’t tell you if there’s anything after this life but I can give you a tip. Live as if there is not. As if this is your only chance to enjoy, to love, to exist.

So, if there’s nothing after, then you will have enjoyed the opportunity I gave you. And if there is, rest assured that I won’t ask if you behaved right or wrong, I’ll ask. Did you like it? Did you have fun? What did you enjoy the most? What did you learn?…

Stop believing in me; believing is assuming, guessing, imagining. I don’t want you to believe in me, I want you to believe in you. I want you to feel me in you when you kiss your beloved, when you tuck in your little girl, when you caress your dog, when you bathe in the sea.

Stop praising me, what kind of egomaniac God do you think I am?

I’m bored being praised. I’m tired of being thanked. Feeling grateful? Prove it by taking care of yourself, your health, your relationships, the world. Express your joy! That’s the way to praise me.

Stop complicating things and repeating as a parakeet what you’ve been taught about me.

What do you need more miracles for? So many explanations?

The only thing for sure is that you are here, that you are alive, that this world is full of wonders.

– Spinoza

Your Gift

YOUR GIFT

Each of us is born with something special,

a gift that’s only given just to us,

a talent or a quirk or a way of seeing life,

a knack of finding light amidst the dust.

It’s your special little gift that’s going to take you,

to the places you’ve dreamed of in your head,

it will open doors and bring in souls who marvel at your skills, it will harvest joy and chase away the dread.

But there’s something that you must be quite aware of, when it comes to knowing just what is your gift,

people search for theirs in vain their whole life through, a thankless chase like that can cause a rift.

Your gift you see, is not always a grand one,

it’s not the being fast, or saving lives,

it’s not always the singing voice, the dancing feet or more, it can sometimes be a simple quirk of life.

Your gift can be a constant splash of colour,

a way of showing light through cloudy days,

your gift could be the way you make others feel at peace, or bring some calm to someone’s messy day.

Your gift could be the ears that always listen,

when someone is in need of being seen,

your gift could be the way you view the world as something small,and believe that we are all just one big team.

Your gift could be the passions that you share,

with others who are not that way inclined,

spreading art and spreading music all across your world, is something that can change a lot of minds.

So take a minute now to look within you,

and see what little gift you’ve stored away,

let it out and show it love and bring it to the front,

your gift will stay with you now, all the way.

Donna Ashworth

From ‘I Wish I Knew’: https://amzn.to/3JVMJlZ

Art by Christian Schloe Digital Artwork

#art #poetry #inspiration #mondaymotivation

August 1

🐇🐇🐇 When first you rise to August light,

say ‘Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit’ thrice,

to enjoy a month of luck both joyful and bright!

The Dreaming Moon by Artist DD McInnes

#rabbitrabbitrabbit #heirloomgardener

🌝🍄🌿🍀🌱🫒💚

*(From an Anglo/Celtic tradition to insure good luck each month. The full moon is also a force that draws up tides and essential oils/juices in plants. This makes it a great time to harvest herbs for teas and culinary uses. Full moon is also a powerful dream-time, so give yourself space to remember, process and perchance, just to dream)! ✨💚

The Old One

La Loba, the old one, The One Who Knows, is within us. She thrives in the deepest soul-psyche of women, the ancient and vital Wild Woman. The La Loba story describes her home as that place in time where the spirit of women and the spirit of wolf meet – the place where her mind and her instincts mingle, where a woman’s deep life funds her mundane life.

It is the point where the I and the Thou kiss, the place where women run with the wolves.’

~Clarissa Pinkola Estes

“La Loba”

Mixed Media

2023

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Prints are available here:

8×10, matted and signed:

https://www.etsy.com/listing/1482348952/la-loba-8×10-matted-and-signed-gallery

4×6 altar art print:

https://www.etsy.com/listing/1496542933/la-loba-4×6-matted-altar-art-print

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Storms

And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about. ~Haruki Murakami

(Book: Kafka on the Shore https://amzn.to/3rLr10M)

(Art: ‘After the Storm’ by Giovanni Segantini)

Wishing you enough

Recently overheard was a father and daughter in their last moments together at the airport. They had announced the departure.
Standing near the security gate, they hugged and the father said, ‘I love you, and I wish you enough.’
The daughter replied, ‘Dad, our life together has been more than enough. Your love is all I ever needed. I wish you enough, too, Dad.’
They kissed and the daughter left. The Father walked over to the window where I was seated. Standing there I could see he wanted and needed to cry. I tried not to intrude on his privacy, but he welcomed me in by asking, ‘Did you ever say good-bye to someone knowing it would be forever?’
‘Yes, I have,’ I replied. ‘Forgive me for asking, but why is this a forever good-bye?’..
‘I am old, and she lives so far away. I have challenges ahead and the reality is – the next trip back will be for my funeral,’ he said.
‘When you were saying good-bye, I heard you say, ‘I wish you enough..’ May I ask what that means?’
He began to smile. ‘That’s a wish that has been handed down from other generations. My parents used to say it to everyone…’
He paused a moment and looked up as if trying to remember it in detail, and he smiled even more. ‘When we said, ‘I wish you enough,’ we were wanting the other person to have a life filled with just enough good things to sustain them.’ Then turning toward me, he shared the following as if he were reciting it from memory.
I wish you enough sun to keep your attitude bright no matter how gray the day may appear.
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun even more.
I wish you enough happiness to keep your spirit alive and everlasting.
I wish you enough pain so that even the smallest of joys in life may appear bigger.
I wish you enough gain to satisfy your wanting.
I wish you enough loss to appreciate all that you possess.
I wish you enough hellos to get you through the final good-bye.
He then began to cry and walked away.
They say it takes a minute to find a special person, an hour to appreciate them, a day to love them; but then an entire life to forget them.
Only if you wish, send this to the people you will never forget. If you don’t send it to anyone it may mean that you are in such a hurry that you have forgotten your friends.
TAKE TIME TO LIVE….
To all my Friends and Family – I WISH YOU ENOUGH

Crone – A woman who has found her voice

”A crone is a woman who has found her voice. She knows that silence is consent. This is a quality that makes older women feared. It is not the innocent voice of a child who says, “the emperor has no clothes,” but the fierce truthfulness of the crone that is the voice of reality. Both the innocent child and the crone are seeing through the illusions, denials, or “spin” to the truth. But the crone knows about the deception and its consequences, and it angers her. Her fierceness springs from the heart, gives her courage, makes her a force to be reckoned with.”

— Jean Shinoda Bolen (Crones Don’t Whine: Concentrated Wisdom for Juicy Women)

Painting by Andrea Redmond

Being alone ( on your own)

Midwives of the Soul

The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it is not. It is an existential truth: only those people who are capable of being alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of the other person—without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other. They allow the other absolute freedom, because they know that if the other leaves, they will be as happy as they are now. Their happiness cannot be taken by the other, because it is not given by the other.

~Osho, The Power of Love. [ https://amzn.to/44xHS5F ]

art | Selma Mera, Twitter.